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@danielbickford3458 Жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure a bunch of Spinosaurus fossils were bombed during one of the world wars, I was a half expecting something like that
@krankarvolund7771 Жыл бұрын
Not just Spinosaurus, a lot of dinosaur bones disappeared under bombs ^^'
@krankarvolund7771 Жыл бұрын
@Solar Solar He was far from complete XD There was a part of the skull, a dozen vertebrae and four ribs, most of these bones were also incomplete. It was still an impressive specimen as it managed to show the defining feature of Spinosaurus: the elongated neural spines, but still ^^ The real problem of its destruction was that it was the holotype, meaning the thing that everyone should look at when they try to determine if they've found Spinosaurus or not. And since 1945, to determine if we've found Spnosaurus, we can only look at drawings ^^' Hence why Nizzar Ibrahim proposed a neotype ^^
@GazB85 Жыл бұрын
It was in Germany during WW2.
@gangstergoji2k5isgod Жыл бұрын
Spinosaurus fans being asked about the holotypes be like:
@firytwig Жыл бұрын
It wasn’t a bunch, it was the only one we had, also practically all of Stromer’s collection was destroyed, including Carcharodontosaurus
@prinzessinpummelfee7495 Жыл бұрын
I mean we found Richard III under a parking lot, so why not a bunch of human fossils?
@QueenBee-gx4rp Жыл бұрын
👌🏻
@lh3540 Жыл бұрын
geophys. ground penetrating radar.
@fajaradi1223 Жыл бұрын
@@nocturnal6129 What is a human anyway?
@WouldntULikeToKnow. Жыл бұрын
@j parking lots are expensive but human history is priceless
@anyascelticcreations Жыл бұрын
Whaat!? I had not heard about Richard III being found under a parking lot! 😲
@ravelordnito9504 Жыл бұрын
Slight correction; although most of the fossils were indeed lost, some original teeth (molars and canines) still exist in the Palaeontological collections of Uppsala University, Sweden.
@TheSaneHatter Жыл бұрын
We lost a LOT of valuable relics during WWII: Heinrich Schliemann's finds from Troy, the skulls from the Hinterkaifeck massacre . . . the list goes on. And those are just the ones we lost to bombing raids: this is the first time I've heard of relics disappearing "in transit" during that time.
@harleyquinn577411 ай бұрын
The story of these bones is interwoven into author Amy Tan’s (write, “The Joy Luck Club”) novel, “The Bone Setter’s Daughter.”
@graphosxp Жыл бұрын
"If you find them fossils let me know ASAP!" - Pyrite
@dawn8293 Жыл бұрын
Oh no!
@TragoudistrosMPH Жыл бұрын
Hungry, why wait!
@KtotheC6342 Жыл бұрын
Lol
@RowanWarren78 Жыл бұрын
😆😆😆😆
@wokeness420 Жыл бұрын
I don't get it 🤔
@repositoryforresponses4131 Жыл бұрын
Parts of our history really do just vanish into thin air
@dinokaijumaster1254 Жыл бұрын
I agree. Most of Stromer's work was destroyed because, despite him trying, it was never moved away from berlin that was getting bombarded because WWII. We lost the holotype of: Spinosaurus, Bahariasaurus, Aegyptosaurus, Stomatosuchus etc..
@kyrab7914 Жыл бұрын
Honestly amazing that we find the bits we do tbh
@ToxicAudri Жыл бұрын
Or go up in flames, the third Reich was known for its book burnings, but they also burned plenty of medical research, as a matter of fact a lot of research into trans people was lost as a result of the third Reich burning and destroying it.
@lucilla888 Жыл бұрын
@@kyrab7914 yeahh
@karenevans7823 Жыл бұрын
Or into a private collection!
@MasterFlores35 Жыл бұрын
Is it possible to have a video done where the evolution of the Exoskeleton of bugs is explained ? I was really curious about that doing yard work yesterday and thought of pbs eons lol 🙌🏼
@refindoazhar1507 Жыл бұрын
I want to see that too. As far as i know the arthropod fossils from the Cambrian already sported extensive exoskeleton, so how far do we know about its origin and evolution?
@MasterFlores35 Жыл бұрын
@@refindoazhar1507 I hope they see our comments hehe 🙌🏼🤙🏼
@brittanyfaucett745 Жыл бұрын
@@MasterFlores35 liked and commenting to hopefully give your comment a tiny bit more visibility. Bc I would also like to see your idea made into a video 😊
@sirblue5586 Жыл бұрын
insects breathe through tubes in their exoskeleton, the bigger the insect the longer the tubes. the longer the tubes, the harder to breathe. this is why insects are not larger than they are today, like they were in the carboniferous, when we had 32.5% oxygen level, compared to our measeley 21% now. also spiders legs are an advanced system of hydraulics with fluid under pressure
@MasterFlores35 Жыл бұрын
@@sirblue5586 awesome, awesome to the max. You should co-host that episode when they make it lol 🙌🏼
@FreeWorldSpirit313 Жыл бұрын
It's interesting that wars are a big part of history but they are also part of why so much of history is missing
@lolbored801 Жыл бұрын
I'm loving these shorts that you all do. Gives me something to do during my breaks at work.
@Ara_Arasaka Жыл бұрын
In a few thousand years they’re gonna dig up that parking lot and be REAL heckin confused.
@lindsyfish6704 Жыл бұрын
"WWII happened to them" Sounds about right, yeah.
@disnecessaurorex4908 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the history lesson PBS and Blake. Next time when someone loses something, I'll say: "they got dragon boned"
@sidneygreenglass106 Жыл бұрын
Can I borrow that one? lol
@zhongxina9420 Жыл бұрын
Ayo?
@avenged277693 Жыл бұрын
"irreplaceable artifacts destroyed in war" I feel like I've heard that before.
@tylerschoen5643 Жыл бұрын
Just think about all the human history lost in the burning of the Alexandria Library. I’m sure we lost entire cultures and first pieces of paper writing
@krankarvolund7771 Жыл бұрын
If you refer to the burning of Alexandria by Caesar's troops, it was probably nothing important, as they burned the warehouse where exported documents were stored. Meaning they burned a buch of copies that were easily replaced ^^ Alexandria library probably disappeared due to neglect during the later days of the Roman Empire, there was just not enough money or care to continue to copy all the books, and to take care of the library.... Sadly, it seems that neglect and uncare did far more to make knowledge disappear than pure will to destroy it ^^'
@tylerschoen5643 Жыл бұрын
@@krankarvolund7771 interesting. I know 10% or about 40,000 scrolls were burnt by Caesar’s men. Either way we are missing so much written history. A lot caused by war, time passing, rulers seeking total control, and ignorance. I can’t imagine what was lost in the dark ages. So much probably was burnt just to keep fires going.
@sidious36 Жыл бұрын
@@krankarvolund7771 no, the great library was destroyed by a raging mob of Christians. In recognition of which the Catholic Church made their leader one of its “Church Fathers”.
@krankarvolund7771 Жыл бұрын
@@sidious36 That's also what I believed, but when I searched more profoundly, it appears that no one mentionned the Library of Alexandria for a long time before that burning, so either it had already disappeared, or at least it was greatly diminished, probably only one of its buildings remained.
@robbiemoore2884 Жыл бұрын
If it helps you feel better, most documents in libraries such as those were copied and sent to multiple places in case of disasters like that
@jacobh1833 Жыл бұрын
I wish we had a series of 'lost fossils' or fossils that were thought to be different then found to be the same.
@KimberlyGreen Жыл бұрын
Truly a "mystery in deep time".
@ZOCCOK Жыл бұрын
This loss of fossil is definitely a tough cookie to bite
@BobsShow Жыл бұрын
The way he said home erectus had me dying
@iamjane9628 Жыл бұрын
Has anyone looked at Mar-a-Lago ?
@b_uppy Жыл бұрын
Lol.
@killapicklepiratepanda7373 Жыл бұрын
And that's why plasters are made thank goodness that wasn't left out.
@VictorianTimeTraveler Жыл бұрын
That really is awful it's kind of like the spinosaurus skeleton that was destroyed in a bombing raid
@joedoggity9400 Жыл бұрын
Now I know where Howard Hamlin went after Better Call Saul
@XcRunner1031 Жыл бұрын
Wars destroy so much knowledge - ancient artifacts, fossils, books, papyri, all the way to cutting edge research. At least there are casts of these bones.
@francobeefy6849 Жыл бұрын
The yakuza has them. Close Encounters With Humankind Sang Hee Lee. It’s a great book.
@pinstripesuitandheels Жыл бұрын
Oooh... A fossil mystery!
@robertfarrow5853 Жыл бұрын
They found Richard III under a parking lot , there's hope!
@DFloyd84 Жыл бұрын
That dastardly Steve stole the bones!
@JoseRodriguez-dx4pb Жыл бұрын
Never thought I'd see James Bond narrate PBS material in my lifetime🤪🤪
@Randibunny Жыл бұрын
I like to drink 3 glasses of wine n watch y’all’s videos 😂
@ericgrace9995 Жыл бұрын
Hey....a couple of years ago we found the body of Richard III buried under a municipal carpark in Leicester, England.
@dopeyfx1783 Жыл бұрын
Dig up that carpark I say, we did it for Richard III and that led to finally finding him.
@Digitalhunny Жыл бұрын
It's only a parking lot. Not like it's an actual home or building, right? So, ground penetrating radar might work?
@xtrff2024 Жыл бұрын
So they did find mammals then. Just not the species they were expecting.
@Thorny_Misanthrope Жыл бұрын
Nobody really wins wars. There are just degrees of loss.
@YBSolow Жыл бұрын
Can't stand thieves. No respect for em..
@jcraigie Жыл бұрын
Why do you suspect theft?
@b_uppy Жыл бұрын
Likely.
@porthoel Жыл бұрын
I want to know more about the book behind him tough cookie 🤣
@edwardd3897 Жыл бұрын
Or maybe the plaster casts were an artist’s rendering of what a caveman’s skull looked like.
@AJScraps Жыл бұрын
As long as we at least have plaster casts, we’ve avoided some misfortune. I understand the actual fossils hold more historical relevance and scientific data; but lets be grateful for the casts 🙏
@krankarvolund7771 Жыл бұрын
The problem is also that casts are far less precise than actual fossiles. Like, Lucy was studied primarily from casts, and they've found out that one of her bones was a baboon bones only when some scientists had access to the original bones ^^ Plus, with new techniques, we now can study the structure of the bone, and it can give very useful informations.
@AJScraps Жыл бұрын
@@krankarvolund7771 I agree. It is a scientific loss. I hope we find the originals
@buddhavskungfu Жыл бұрын
Have you tried lake Meade? I just saw yesterday and it’s looking grim. Also, I need details on those glasses.
@KtotheC6342 Жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure I saw a movie about this? And somehow this relates to the Denisovan cave where they discovered a completely new species that is comparable to the Neanderthals.
@jimdraper4776 Жыл бұрын
Pretty sure that is a bar in Downtown Denver.
@alfonsomunoz4424 Жыл бұрын
Fossils waiting to be found a second time.
@Mary-Love Жыл бұрын
Insane that Jane Goodall met the man who discovered and excavated these bones
@peacefulmonke Жыл бұрын
Is any unique knowledge attributed solely to these specific fossils? That would be interesting to know.
@yay-cat Жыл бұрын
So they were dug up and like will be dug up again in say 1000 years but those guys might assumed they were tortured seeing as the remains were squashed into a box
@alswann2702 Жыл бұрын
They're in the same warehouse as the Ark.
@adecree Жыл бұрын
This is why war sucks. We still can't even figure out the pyramids!!
@cggc9510 Жыл бұрын
Didn't they do a podcast on this topic?
@AuthoritativeBanana Жыл бұрын
I’m willing to bet some ultra rich guy owns them
@KhanMann66 Жыл бұрын
It’s either in some rich dude’s closet or it shattered to millions of pieces when the ship got sunk.
@krankarvolund7771 Жыл бұрын
From what he said, they didn't make it on the boat, as the boat sunked before arriving at the base, they buried it, probably to protect them from bombing and japanese forces, and forget it. Now, it's either lost, or already decomposed in the ground ^^'
@sumis8096 Жыл бұрын
Tough cookie book in the background 🤗
@ZAR556 Жыл бұрын
maybe that's Yeti
@RebSike Жыл бұрын
The only complete spinosaurus skeleton was destroyed in the bombing of Berlin
@rogerhorky7258 Жыл бұрын
it was not complete
@lh3540 Жыл бұрын
they need to get the time team geophys team on that parking lot
@Idotisme Жыл бұрын
If they survived they are in private collections
@eatwhatukiii2532 Жыл бұрын
Probably the ship got sank in transit
@sonaliduttaeverythingdeart3587 Жыл бұрын
Very interesting info. 👍🏻
@Mr.Isquierdo Жыл бұрын
Is there a way to save shorts?
@isixqueenxofxmadness Жыл бұрын
Why is he so dad-handsome 😭 Is the podcast coming back?
@glucosedaddy4525 Жыл бұрын
Back then they were faking skulls to boast a find. Nothing has changed
@Mrf388 Жыл бұрын
its not the first time these things go "missing".
@heidismith8970 Жыл бұрын
Try the Smithoneon institute
@Manhandle730 Жыл бұрын
Chairman Mao used them as ashtrays.
@ItemlabeI Жыл бұрын
They’re in the British museum
@DenkyManner Жыл бұрын
And then at the end sneak in the fact we have casts of them so it isn't actually that big a deal.
@RaccoonRecluse Жыл бұрын
Homo erectus was around for 200,000 years. You can't tell me they didn't have some semblance of modern technology even if more like middle ages.
@cerasinopshodgskissi3817 Жыл бұрын
Their most advanced technology consisted of controlled fire and Acheulean stone tools.
@ungoyone Жыл бұрын
Kinda interesting the casts remain but the fossils didn't. That doesn't add any openings for conspiracy theories like, at all.
@bredcubed1161 Жыл бұрын
They still kept the casts and didn’t ship them.
@Account1746 Жыл бұрын
People really think we all came from 2 humans 😂😂
@stare4539 Жыл бұрын
That’s sad
@zakaruahbones3142 Жыл бұрын
Pretty sure Indiana Jones found them.
@Mattnoble80 Жыл бұрын
While they may have been destroyed by the war it is a possibility a pretentious person felt as if they held something of such great value so it is hidden something
@alumbo Жыл бұрын
Was this the uss Harrison voyage?
@annieoops6243 Жыл бұрын
Interesting!
@Fisheey Жыл бұрын
Bet they’re in a British museum
@rokuth Жыл бұрын
Brought to mind the end scene of "Raiders of the Lost Ark." Lost in a warehouse somewhere...
@likwidmocean Жыл бұрын
ground up as an aphrodisiac and sold to the highest bidder
@mysticdreams212 Жыл бұрын
Did you check in the Indiana Jones vault?
@shadowknightgladstay4856 Жыл бұрын
Sounds like all of paleontology. A mystery
@jjpmcc Жыл бұрын
So it proves, earth 6,000 years old? NOT!
@unknowntosociety01 Жыл бұрын
Is this guy the dad of Josh from Mythical Kitchens? The resemblance is uncanny
@miguelelgueta5830 Жыл бұрын
I though this was the lawyer of Better Call Saul
@thomicrisler9855 Жыл бұрын
When I first saw this short in my feed I thought it was a Mythical Kitchen short until I read the title lol.
@aiko9393 Жыл бұрын
Can we Xray the parking lot? Y'know, just in case.
@fifthlomat717 Жыл бұрын
I want to know where all the giant native Americans went
@2sexyfomyshirt Жыл бұрын
Did anyone check the British museum in london?
@blender_wiki Жыл бұрын
Usually we call this "stolen"
@paulacornelison243 Жыл бұрын
Are you talking about Peking MAN? I thought they were lost in China.
@mikebar42 Жыл бұрын
Scrappy dabby Doo
@LeoDas688 Жыл бұрын
We also lost another animals fossil because of world war,world war is the enemy of science
@vikasbalu294 Жыл бұрын
this KZbin algorithm ugh , ppl are doing more and more shorts, it keeps us occupied and makes us prone to short term attention span, u guys I love this channel do more of long ones too :')
@mintyfresh6530 Жыл бұрын
Probs in the Vatican lol
@thatguyovertherelmao Жыл бұрын
Howard Hamlin
@TragoudistrosMPH Жыл бұрын
War and a parking lot... Go humans! 😒
@kelsey.targaryen Жыл бұрын
Tough cookie 👁👄👁
@TrueTydin Жыл бұрын
Science daddy saves the day from a lack of epic knowledge once again!
@cherylpattersonreeves9827 Жыл бұрын
Is he the grown up kid from the Christmas Story movie?
@RemiliaVampire Жыл бұрын
i have them
@RR-ob8ze Жыл бұрын
I have them
@isixqueenxofxmadness Жыл бұрын
Has anyone asked the british empire yet?
@the_wandering_viking9031 Жыл бұрын
I have em
@gaywizard2000 Жыл бұрын
Argentina?
@hapichampagne5916 Жыл бұрын
“Which is a dope name” 😂 a dope name it is sir.
@dport9563 Жыл бұрын
I'm so tired of censorship of historical replicas or representation. Why is Homo Erectus male not shown completely. 😑